Folklorno društvo Markovci

🇸🇮 Folklorno društvo "Anton-Jože Štrafela" Markovci je bilo ustanovljeno leta 1938 in velja za drugo najstarejše folklorno društvo v Sloveniji.  Leto kasneje so se člani, na pobudo etnomuzikologa Franceta Marolta, zbrali v skupino in prvič pod vodstvom Frana Žižka nastopili na Velikem festivalu slovenskih narodnih običajev v Mariboru (5. - 6. 8. 1939), kjer so širni množici predstavili ženitovanjski lik kopjaša in etnografske pustne like. 

Danes v društvu delujejo naslednje sekcije: plesna skupina, godci, ljudske pevke, pevke ljudskih pesmi ''Kitice'', kopjaši in vile. 

🇬🇧 The Folklore Society "Anton-Jože Štrafela" from Markovci was established in the year 1938 on the initiative of the ethnomusicologist France Marolt, as a few young boys and girls joined into a group which first performed at the meeting of ethnographic groups in Maribor, Slovenia. A number of years the Society has been the pillar of the folklore and preservation of the rites in the entire Slovenia.